The Internet depends on physical infrastructure like towers and cables, which can be shut off.

Satellite internet is the main way to access the Internet that cannot so easily be shut off because the infrastructure for that is in space, not the country’s borders. So this is why this news story exists for example: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/01/12/kill-switch-iran-shuts-down-starlink-internet-for-first-time/

Yes. “First” is correct, “only” not anymore, if the above commenter is an AI chatbot, it should really update its training data.

isn’t that how economic crises start or something…?

Dubai is likely the most well-known part of the UAE, so you may have heard people mention Dubai as if it were a country (because the audience might associate more with “Dubai” than “UAE”), without them meaning to imply that it’s a real country.

There are certainly irredentist movements in many parts of the world that want to restore previous states of geopolitics, including the existence of the Soviet Union.

A country is ultimately a country if it is recognized as such by other countries. There are videos on the Internet that give greater details (search for keywords like “how many countries are there”). There are many places that some other countries say are countries, others not.

???

Out of the ones you mention, Dubai is in fact not a real country and I have not seen anyone claim that it is; it is a city and region of the country called the United Arab Emirates.

Israel isn’t universally recognized by all countries because some countries claim it is illegitimate (for religious reasons, because they say it is a colonialist project, etc. etc.).

Belgium is a country with different parts speaking different languages also spoken in neighboring countries, that is why some people have claimed it’s not (culturally) its own country, but I don’t think anyone seriously refuses to recognize it as a country.

As for Latvia, no idea whatsoever what you’re talking about.

So the question as asked is unanswerable because you’re giving confusing and inconsistent examples.

I think it is asking about the rules of a specific subreddit, which seems like an oddly specific question which people here are unlikely to be able to help with.

Gender dysphoria is a real medical condition which I don’t think there’s an equivalent for many other things.

I would say it is, but needlessly complex.

You’re looking for this I think: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retention_election

in 2025? Vaccines have been available for how many years now? Why does anyone even think about COVID vaccines anymore in this year? We would have figured out any adverse effects by now if there were any.

USB C … C … sea … you might be onto something there 😂

Both human and dog feces have significant variation in how they smell, so this question is somewhat meaningless. Dogs are carnivores, so if you ate meat, your feces is probably going to smell more like dog feces than if you ate only plant-based food.

Federation means that when anything happens on one instance (post, comment, whatever), that instance will also inform other instances of this. Which other instances? The ones that have at least one user who has indicated they are interested in that kind of activity (on Lemmy mostly: by subscribing to the community).

So already now you can see eg my instance’s copy of a lemm.ee community at https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee and this will not disappear just because lemm.ee goes down. It’s stored in my instance’s database. But it will no longer be possible to post or comment there because that will no longer federate to other instances.

It’s not guaranteed that all of lemm.ee will be accessible elsewhere. Some communities might not have (always had) subscribers from other instances, which would mean no other database has stored those parts.

Help with what? The US is part of NATO so if it is attacked militarily, all other NATO countries are obliged to help against such an invasion.

The question doesn’t really make sense as asked. The entire criminal justice system, almost by definition, revolves around punishment.

Punishment has several different purposes such as deterrence, removal, rehabilitation. I suspect you wanted to ask about why some of these purposes are “better” than others…

Here’s a comic explaining this: https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=60

I have several family members who either don’t drive at all or have previously taken several-year-long breaks from driving.

I was significantly older than you are now when I learned to drive at all, I no longer own a car and haven’t driven in approximately 9 months.

If you are in a life situation where you do not need to drive, then it is completely your own decision and you shouldn’t listen to anyone else trying to convince you one way or the other. Most drivers overestimate their abilities; if you yourself feel driving isn’t for you, then it’s better for everyone involved (including others on the road) that you don’t drive. But you still have a long life ahead of you and it’s completely possible you’ll become more confident when some more years have passed.

They can, it is just that if they do that, the PRC will sever diplomatic relations with such a country. Why that is so, you would have to ask them… neither of the Koreas has such a policy.

The situations are also not exactly the same: out of these, all are members of the United Nations except the Republic of China.

The problem with the question is that somewhat inherently, “full desktop OSes and programs” are designed to run on screens so large they don’t fit in your pocket. So you kinda have to decide what you actually want.

Look up the PinePhone or Librem 5.

and anything where you’re being given instructions where you’re supposed to copy what the person in the video is doing, video works very well for that too

Agreed on this. We don’t know you (OP) well enough to answer this. For me it would be clear because I find law interesting (it isn’t what I studied but I considered it for a long time) but medicine completely uninteresting; if everyone were like me we would have no doctors, so it’s a good thing that’s not the case.

Dieses Suchenwiegenflassen gewürst fleinmescht bitte

As a native speaker of German: lol

I mainly notice this with YouTube ads when in a foreign country. YouTube, you have my viewing history, you know I don’t watch videos in Italian or Hungarian because I don’t understand those languages well, so why are you advertising to me in those languages just because my IP geolocates to Italy or Hungary???